Partridge Senpai's 2017 Beaten Games:1.
Tales of Hearts R (Vita)
2.
UPPERS (Vita)
3.
Volume (Vita)
4.
Overlord: Minions (DS)
5.
Kirby: Planet Robobot (3DS)
6.
Overlord II (PS3)
7.
Overlord: Dark Legend (Wii)
8.
La-Mulana (Remake) (PC)
9.
Infamous: Second Son (PS4)
10.
htol#NiQ: The Firefly Diary (Vita)
11.
Blood Bowl (360)
12.
Dead to Rights: Retribution (360)
13.
Bioshock Infinite (360)
14.
Bioshock Infinite: Burial At Sea Part 1 (360)
15.
Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea Part 2 (360)
16.
Singularity (360)
17.
Seifuku Densetsu Pretty Fighter X (Saturn)
18.
Ultraman: Hikari No Kyojin Densetsu (Saturn)
19.
Donkey Kong 64 (N64) (repeat)
20.
Song of the Deep (PS4)
21.
Naruto Gekitou Ninja Taisen 3 (GCN)
22.
Banjo-Tooie (N64) (repeat)
23.
Wario Land (VB)
24.
Yakuza HD Edition (PS3)
25.
Yakuza 2 HD Edition (PS3)
26.
Vanquish (PS3)
27.
Watchdogs 2 (PS4)
28.
Pikmin (Wii)
29.
Pikmin 3 (Wii U)
30.
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Wii U)
31.
Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)
32.
Tales of Innocence R (Vita)
33.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
34. Boing! Docomodake DS (DS)
I think it was Exhumy Senpai a few weeks back who mentioned in some thread that he was interested in how this game was but no one had played it. WELL NOW I HAVE, and I return to spread the word of it's thinguses. Docomodake is the mascot of the Japanese mobile phone provider NTT docomo. For reference, he apparently exists in a similar space culturally to Domo-kun over there (although clearly not here). This is a puzzle platformer starring him. It's a budget game (I recall it retailing new at $20), but it's a quite competent one.
Docomodake works by going through levels to collect treasure and get to the end goal. The treasure is completely optional, and only exists to increase the rank achieved on that respective stage. There are 7 worlds (one after the credits) with 8 stage a piece. (For reference, I did not do the post-credits world, as I really wasn't enjoying the game enough). You break down Docomodake into smaller units of himself, and can move these smaller Docos around with the stylus to do things like push switches, turn into rocks to throw at enemies, and stack into ladders for your main Doco to climb. It's almost like a very simple Pikmin in that regard, but that feels like a very generous comparison.
The stage design is adequate. There's never anything mind blowingly good or awful either way, and some of the puzzles to get certain treasure without blocking it off for yourself are actually reasonably tricky. It didn't take me long after a quick observation to figure most of them out, but if you're just mindlessly walking forward you're bound to miss stuff. If you're trying to get everything, I would personally say that is the most satisfying way to play the game as an adult, but a child would probably enjoy just getting through the stages. It's a fairly good babby's first puzzle game, I suppose (like for a 5-10 year old).
Verdict: Okay, but not Recommended. It's a decent enough puzzle game on DS, but puzzle platfomers like this or better are a dime a dozen on a platform like Steam. It's a fine game, but nothing worth writing home about.
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